<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 10:49 AM Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net">dhc2@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 7/4/2018 12:16 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:<br>
> You mean the guy who copied Unix, a creation of America’s 11th largest <br>
> company at the time?<br>
<br>
and yet, the specifics of who did what and with what, then, describes a <br>
classic garage activity.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I would describe it more as "skunkworks" than garage.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
the only difference worth noting is that the big company was paying <br>
their salaries. in terms of critical components to the event, that <br>
point doesn't impress me.</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Ken Thompson wrote the first "Unices" kernel on a cast-off PDP-7. While perhaps antiquated for 1969, is that really something that would have been accessible to an individual? 1st Edition was on a PDP-11/20; almost certainly out of the reach of individuals in the early 1970s. And the fact that they were getting *paid* to work on this is not a small point.</div><div><br></div><div> - Dan C.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"></div>